F1 2013 Testing: Week 2 Barcelona

utajoker said:
have timings on f1test.info stopped for others?

im stuck on 13:03
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The auto refresh function hasn't been working properly for me since yesterday, but that could be my work connection gimping out on me.

Duke said:
Can someone post the morning times each day if possible? Hard to follow it at work.
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PHP: 
Morning times

Pos  Driver                Team            Time       Gap     Laps   
 1.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari         1m21.875s           51
 2.  Nico Hulkenberg       Sauber          1m22.160s  +0.285   43
 3.  Romain Grosjean       Lotus           1m22.188s  +0.313   47
 4.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes        1m22.627s  +0.752   29
 5.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams        1m22.675s  +0.800   79
 6.  Jenson Button         McLaren         1m22.840s  +0.965   29
 7.  Adrian Sutil          Force India     1m22.877s  +1.002   39
 8.  Mark Webber           Red Bull        1m23.024s  +1.149   46
 9.  Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso      1m23.366s  +1.491   66
10.  Max Chilton           Marussia        1m26.416s  +4.541   33
11.  Giedo van der Garde   Caterham        1m27.344s  +5.469   50
 
. Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:21.875
2. Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.160
3. Romain Grosjean (Fra) Lotus-Renault 1:22.188
4. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 1:22.627
5. Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Renault 1:22.675
6. Jenson Button (GB) McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.840
7. Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Mercedes 1:22.877
8. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 1:23.024
9. Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:23.983
10. Max Chilton (GB) Marussia-Cosworth 1:26.416
11. Giedo van der Garde (Ned) Caterham-Renault 1:27.344

beaten to it....you got the job mate :)
 
The top 6, maybe 7 did their times on softs except Button on hards and Rosberg on mediums, Webber also on mediums, the best two times look like Rosberg and Button's considering length of laps and tyre they were on.


Grosjean did a bunch of laps, seemingly on full fuel, on the softs and times were similar to the first stint of Maldonado's race sim, but he only did a few laps, came in to change to mediums and times went from 29.5's to 32's over around 13 laps, which seems worse than the Williams had, lost a bit more time and over less laps, I think the softs are just graining so badly that no one is doing a long run on them as its pointless, so Grosjean switched to mediums. Rosberg has also done a longer stint 27's up to 29's over 11 laps or so, noticeably faster by really 2 seconds over Maldonado's fastest stint, but less laps.

Oddly Rosberg is on another longer stint, and his times have improved from 31's to 29's throughout it, so he's speeding up rather than slowing down, will be interesting to see how long the tyres last if you start off slower.#

EDIT:- currently Rosberg up to 15 laps and after the slow first 5 laps he drop times to mid 28's and they've stayed there, definitely interesting. Grosjean on third stint now, started at 27's, dropped to 30's in 5 laps or so which doesn't seem all that promising. Sky suspect Webbers on the first stint of a race sim, starting off basically 2 seconds faster than Maldonado and threw a 28.5 in there for good measure, if thats the start of a full race sim with full fuel, times seem good and Williams are miles behind.

EDIT:- the 28 Webber did was actually first lap on new tyres, only did 9 laps, losing about a second over that time. Second stint and his times went from 28's to 30's very quickly indeed, Red Bull having trouble with tyres, very short stint and times dropping quickly over stint.

Rosberg did 18 laps I think, good times for 2/3rd's of the stint but started slow. Pirelli said temp/conditions mean those first few laps are hurting the tyres, but maybe they are lasting fine if you take it easy to start with.

Hmm, on hards Button didn't do a whole lot of laps, started at 29.5 and was into the 31's with a few laps, 33 at the end and Grosjean's 2nd stint started at 27 and finished in the 31's, only did a couple fast laps before speed dropped off badly.
 
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f1tests.info/2013.php?rev=on

for minute by minute info, very useful to see how long a stint and what times are happening. it does miss pitstops though due to timing.

Skysports ticker thing also has a list of fastest times, laps done and tyres the fastest lap was done on at the top with useful bits of info below.

Should add, that link, it keeps causing firefox to hang for several seconds when it updates, not always though, wasn't doing it yesterday.
 
I swear someone is lulling us into a false sense of security..... I mean, I am starting to get a glimmer of hope that Mercedes may be almost competitive this year.
 
Well for Lotus and Red Bull they are seemingly doing full race sims, so they started off with full race fuel, doing proper pitstops it seems so no time to refuel, Merc the fuel is less well known for sure.

THe second last stint for Grosjean was clearly on less fuel and he went much longer at 21-22 laps, and maintained 28-29 for almost the entire stint. Though from earlier times(he did a 27... then was at 30's 2 laps later, probably screwed his tyres) its not the fastest he can go on that fuel load, but a good speed to maintain tyres obviously.

The lotus didn't look too different to the Red Bull, the lotus seemed to particularly on the second last stint, go much longer and maintain times, but time wise, not convinced either is looking better than the other. Compared to them but without knowing fuel the Merc has done consistently faster stints, being in that 27-29 range more often, it would seem odd to go out and do the same stint on the same fuel each time as you wouldn't learn anything, if you assumed one of them was higher fuel and one was lower fuel, they still look comparitively faster than Lotus/Red Bull when those two should have been fast.

Bottas's times look, like Maldonado, massively off the pace.

Both of them were doing what 32-34's in the first stint on full fuel, while Lotus/RBR were doing 30-32's, the Willams barely dipping below 30's even in the last stint, while RBR/Lotus/Merc are comfortably doing laps between 28-30. The Williams looks 2 seconds off the pace.
 
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Skeeter said:
Caterham and Marussia are still showing no signs of getting anywhere near the pace :(
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I dunno, the Caterham went out and did a bunch of laps in the ranges of what Williams were doing(not many though), the Marusia went out and did 5 laps all around the 2minute mark, no idea what thats about... has anyone seen a picture of a marusia with an improvised "rain simulator" above it?
 
Alonso stays top

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[b]Pos  Driver                  Team            Time       Gap     Laps[/b]
 1.  Fernando Alonso         Ferrari         1m21.875s           97
 2.  Nico Hulkenberg         Sauber          1m22.160s  +0.285   91
 3.  Romain Grosjean         Lotus           1m22.188s  +0.313   119
 4.  Nico Rosberg            Mercedes        1m22.611s  +0.736   108
 5.  Pastor Maldonado        Williams        1m22.675s  +0.800   79
 6.  Valtteri Bottas         Williams        1m22.826s  +0.951   68
 7.  Jenson Button           McLaren         1m22.840s  +0.965   71
 8.  Adrian Sutil            Force India     1m22.877s  +1.002   78
 9.  Mark Webber             Red Bull        1m23.024s  +1.149   108
10.  Jean-Eric Vergne        Toro Rosso      1m23.366s  +1.491   106
11.  Max Chilton             Marussia        1m25.690s  +3.815   58
12.  Giedo van der Garde     Caterham        1m26.177s  +4.302   83
 
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